Originally published in French in seven volumes, "Cosmopolitics"
investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern
societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality,
and truth. "Cosmopolitics II" includes the first English-language
translations of the last four books: "Quantum Mechanics: The End of
the Dream, In the Name of the Arrow of Time: Prigogine's Challenge,
Life and Artifice: The Faces of Emergence, "and" The Curse of
Tolerance.
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Arguing for an "ecology of practices" in the sciences, Isabelle
Stengers explores the discordant landscape of knowledge derived
from modern science, seeking intellectual consistency among
contradictory, confrontational, and mutually exclusive
philosophical ambitions and approaches. For Stengers, science is a
constructive enterprise, a diverse, interdependent, and highly
contingent system that does not simply discover preexisting truths
but, through specific practices and processes, helps shape
them.
Stengers concludes this philosophical inquiry with a forceful
critique of tolerance; it is a fundamentally condescending
attitude, she contends, that prevents those worldviews that
challenge dominant explanatory systems from being taken seriously.
Instead of tolerance, she proposes a "cosmopolitics" that rejects
politics as a universal category and allows modern scientific
practices to peacefully coexist with other forms of
knowledge.
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